Shinagawa Lighthouse

Shinagawa Lighthouse
品川灯台

Shinagawa Lighthouse, now in Meiji Mura.
Location	Shinagawa, Japan (former) Meiji Mura (current)
Coordinates	35°20′29.9″N 136°59′38.9″E
Tower
Constructed	5 April 1870
Construction	brick tower
Height	9 metres (30 ft)
Shape	cylindrical tower with gallery and lantern
Markings	white tower and lantern
Heritage	Important Cultural Property
Light
First lit	5 March 1870
Deactivated	1957
Focal height	15.75 m (51.7 ft)
Lens	4th order Fresnel lens
Range	9 nmi (17 km; 10 mi)
Characteristic	decorative light[1]

Shinagawa Lighthouse was a lighthouse in Shinagawa (品川第二砲台), south of Tokyo, Japan.

The lighthouse was the third of the four lighthouses built by French engineer Léonce Verny. It was relocated to the Meiji Mura historical theme park near Nagoya.^[2]

Later lighthouses would be built by the English engineer Richard Henry Brunton, until the Japanese would take over lighthouse construction in 1880.^[3]

The lighthouse was first lit on 5 March 1870.^{[citation needed]}

See also

• List of lighthouses in Japan

References

1. Rowlett, Russ. "Lighthouses of Japan: Nagoya (Aichi Prefecture)". The Lighthouse Directory. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
2. Global Change: Mankind-marine Environment Interactions Hubert-Jean Ceccaldi p.240
3. "The English engineer Richard Henry Brunton continued Verny's work; starting in 1 880, lighthouses were designed by Japanese architects" in Japan encyclopedia Louis Frédéric p.593